Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-5-12

[toonsterwu]

It's a shame Cerda isn't a better defender at 2nd, because that's where his bat profiles best. As of now, it's just hard to buy that the current power can be maintained. A few years back, I was given a Mike Fontenot comparison as a positive case, so I've always held out hope that he had a bit more pop, but this is a significant jump from the past, as of now, so taking more of a wait and see.

 

The Concepcion thing is just bad right now. In most situations like this, I'd say send him to XST again. Maybe he isn't in shape. The 40 man thing, though, likely creates additional pressure to have him in full-season to justify what they were selling when they signed him.

 

The scouting reports weren't that much better on Concepcion, if at all, than they were on Jin Young Kim when we signed him, but at least we got Kim at a significantly lower rate.

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[El Duderino]

ron villone clearly isn't getting through to concepcion

[Hawk4Hall]

I was at the Chiefs game last night. Concepcion certainly didn't get much help from the defense, but only his fastball was finding the strike zone and it was hit about every time. He his stuff was not good at all last night. Hopefully he turns it around but he is off to a very rough start. That contact makes the pressure on even more.

 

The River Bandits were very hot at the plate last night.